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http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/12/05/monkey_makes_warhollike_paintings_art_collectors_go_bananas.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870835,00.html
http://ecclesiastes911.net/story/pierre_brassau.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar

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Born in the UK in 1928, Desmond Morris is a zoologist, writer and artist. Having created and presented programmes for TV on animal behaviour, he has gone on to write a series of books on the same topic beginning with the best-seller, ‘The Naked Ape’. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And this chimpanzee – he was called Congo – Congo's paintings were extraordinary because he did control them visually. He got no reward for them. If I tried to stop him in the middle of painting, he would scream and have a temper tantrum. If I tried to get him to go on after he'd finished a painting, he wouldn't. The lines were placed exactly where he wanted them on the page and he would have a basic quality of the artist which is thematic variation. He would develop a theme, like a fan pattern, and then he would vary it. He'd make this fan pattern and then he would split it in two and put a spot in the middle, or he'd make a little subsidiary fan to one side. And he was playing with abstract patterns and doing it for no reward at all other than the excitement of exploring visual patterns.
And I remember saying to somebody, 'They've called Lascaux the birth of art. Lascaux isn't the birth of art – it's the adolescence – this is the birth of art, this is the beginning of aesthetic expression. They may only be abstract patterns but they are visually controlled and varied'. And he did about 300 or 400 of these pictures. And eventually there was an exhibition of them at the ICA in London and people were surprised. Oh, of course the press had a field day with it, made jokes about it at the expense of modern art, which made me very cross, but the serious artists realised what was going on.
And Picasso had one of these Congo paintings, and when a journalist came in and rather sneeringly said, 'Oh, what do you think of this picture by this chimpanzee then?' Picasso bit him. Which I thought was a wonderful way of saying, the chimpanzee and I have something in common. And Picasso was very impressed. So was Salvador Dali. Dali said, 'The hand of the chimpanzee is quasi-human; the hand of Jackson Pollock is totally animal', which was a wonderful quote from Dali. And Miró – who I had that show with earlier on – Miró came to see me and said, 'I want one of Congo's paintings'. And so I gave him one – I had only a few left by this time – I gave him one and he was so pleased that he did a Miró in exchange for me. He sat down and did a Miró which is what a schoolboy would call a good swop.
So that was my Congo experiment and it led to a book called 'The Biology of Art' which was my first serious book. And it fascinated me because it brought together my two passions: passion for animals and for art. I decided then that I would try to extend this research with chimpanzees and we did a number of other experiments with them. When I say experiments, I mean these were... I built a coconut shy, scaled down to take grapes so that the chimpanzee had to aim at these grapes as if they were coconuts in a coconut shy. And I was doing this because there was some debate about whether chimpanzees had good aiming ability because aiming ability was something which early human hunters had to have par excellence. It was very important in the history of our species that accurate aiming took place. And I wanted to see how... and a chimpanzee was able to knock a grape off with a... with a ball swinging on a chain. And we have it all on film and so you could... again, not only could you see the first germ of aesthetic behaviour in the chimpanzee, but you could also see the first signs of aiming behaviour.

published:05 Sep 2017

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ttracting more than 25 artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and across the world, combining different art genres such as painting, sculpture, photography and other multimedia art forms - visitors are in for a treat.

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such as soda bottles to create elaborate sculptures and other decorative pieces with the cheapest item selling for not less than 200 dollars. CCTV's MariaGalang reports

Agkistrodon piscivorus

Agkistrodon piscivorus is a venomous snake, a species of pit viper, found in the southeastern United States. Adults are large and capable of delivering a painful and potentially fatal bite. When antagonized, they will stand their ground by coiling their bodies and displaying their fangs. Although their aggression has been exaggerated, individuals may bite when feeling threatened or being handled. This is the world's only semiaquatic viper, usually found in or near water, particularly in slow-moving and shallow lakes, streams, and marshes. The snake is a strong swimmer and will even enter the sea. It has successfully colonized islands off both the Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

The generic name is derived from the Greek words ancistro (hooked) and odon (tooth), and the specific name comes from the Latinpiscis (fish) and voro (to eat); thus, the scientific name translates into “hooked-tooth fish-eater”. Common names include variants on water moccasin, swamp moccasin, black moccasin, cottonmouth, gapper, or simply viper. Many of the common names refer to the threat display, where this species will often stand its ground and gape at an intruder, exposing the white lining of its mouth. Three subspecies are currently recognized, including the nominate subspecies described here. Its diet consists mainly of fish and frogs but is otherwise highly varied and, uniquely, has even been reported to include carrion.

Details

The song is not about the African country, but rather about two people who cannot get along with each other, leaving them to want to be rid of each other and as distant as possible. Musically, the song opens with a Caribbean drum beat while an African-style tribe is heard chanting "Congo the Congo", before the song launches into a darker guitar-driven melody. The album version features an alternative synthesizer ending that fades out, while the single version has an earlier fade-out that excludes the ending.

Music video

The music video, directed by Howard Greenhalgh, features industrialised imagery, with the band playing in a heavily guarded shipyard manned with slave labour. Massive water cannons are used to control uprisings, and the band is doused with water quite often throughout the video. The video was shot at the Mediterranean Film Studios in Malta.

The Congolese Civil Wars, which began in 1996, brought about the end of Mobutu Sese Seko's 31-year reign and devastated the country. The wars ultimately involved nine African nations, multiple groups of UN peacekeepers and twenty armed groups, and resulted in the deaths of 5.4 million people.

Desmond Morris

Early life

Born on 24 January 1928 in Purton, Wiltshire, Desmond John Morris is the son of Marjorie (née Hunt) and the children’s fiction author Harry Morris. In 1933, the Morrises moved to the nearby town of Swindon, which remained his primary home until 1951. During this time in Swindon Morris began to develop a strong interest in both natural history and writing. In 1941 Morris attended Dauntsey's School, a co-educational boarding school for 11- to 18-year-olds on the northern edge of Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire. It was during this time away at school that Morris’s passion for both zoology and the modern visual arts began to intensify and come to the surface.

In 1946, Morris was conscripted into the army for two years of national service. During this time, he became a lecturer in fine arts at the Chiseldon Army College, and also began to take painting seriously. In 1948 he was demobilised from the army, and that same year held his first one-man show of his own paintings at the Swindon Arts Centre. Pursuing his interests immediately, that autumn he enrolled as an undergraduate in the Zoology Department of the University of Birmingham as well. Morris graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Zoology. He moved on in 1951 to the Oxford University Zoology Department to begin his research into animal behaviour for his doctorate degree, mainly basing his studies on reproductive communication systems. In 1954 he earned a Doctor of Philosophy for his research and works leading to his doctoral thesis regarding reproductive behaviour of the ten-spined stickleback.

Surrealist Art

Congo Art

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Congo Art Works. Popular Painting

The Critically Acclaimed Artist Who Turned Out to Be a Chimpanzee

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In 1964, a new avant-garde artist was introduced to the art scene in the Swedish city of Gōteborg. The fresh new artist was Pierre Brassau and his work received rave reviews from critics and art fans alike.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/03/the-monkey-artist-hoax/
Sources:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/20/entertainment/main703057.shtml
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/12/05/monkey_makes_warhollike_paintings_art_collectors_go_bananas.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870835,00.html
http://ecclesiastes911.net/story/pierre_brassau.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar

DR Congo Art: Village in DR Congo becomes tourist attraction

Women from a village in the Democratic Republic of Congo are giving their community a tourism lifeline by painting the walls of their homes. They say it's opening up opportunities for them and bringing in much needed money. Fidelis Mbah reports.
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28:21

African Art: The Congo

African Art: The Congo

African Art: The Congo

4:14

Desmond Morris - Congo the artistic chimpanzee (17/37)

Desmond Morris - Congo the artistic chimpanzee (17/37)

Desmond Morris - Congo the artistic chimpanzee (17/37)

Born in the UK in 1928, Desmond Morris is a zoologist, writer and artist. Having created and presented programmes for TV on animal behaviour, he has gone on to write a series of books on the same topic beginning with the best-seller, ‘The Naked Ape’. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And this chimpanzee – he was called Congo – Congo's paintings were extraordinary because he did control them visually. He got no reward for them. If I tried to stop him in the middle of painting, he would scream and have a temper tantrum. If I tried to get him to go on after he'd finished a painting, he wouldn't. The lines were placed exactly where he wanted them on the page and he would have a basic quality of the artist which is thematic variation. He would develop a theme, like a fan pattern, and then he would vary it. He'd make this fan pattern and then he would split it in two and put a spot in the middle, or he'd make a little subsidiary fan to one side. And he was playing with abstract patterns and doing it for no reward at all other than the excitement of exploring visual patterns.
And I remember saying to somebody, 'They've called Lascaux the birth of art. Lascaux isn't the birth of art – it's the adolescence – this is the birth of art, this is the beginning of aesthetic expression. They may only be abstract patterns but they are visually controlled and varied'. And he did about 300 or 400 of these pictures. And eventually there was an exhibition of them at the ICA in London and people were surprised. Oh, of course the press had a field day with it, made jokes about it at the expense of modern art, which made me very cross, but the serious artists realised what was going on.
And Picasso had one of these Congo paintings, and when a journalist came in and rather sneeringly said, 'Oh, what do you think of this picture by this chimpanzee then?' Picasso bit him. Which I thought was a wonderful way of saying, the chimpanzee and I have something in common. And Picasso was very impressed. So was Salvador Dali. Dali said, 'The hand of the chimpanzee is quasi-human; the hand of Jackson Pollock is totally animal', which was a wonderful quote from Dali. And Miró – who I had that show with earlier on – Miró came to see me and said, 'I want one of Congo's paintings'. And so I gave him one – I had only a few left by this time – I gave him one and he was so pleased that he did a Miró in exchange for me. He sat down and did a Miró which is what a schoolboy would call a good swop.
So that was my Congo experiment and it led to a book called 'The Biology of Art' which was my first serious book. And it fascinated me because it brought together my two passions: passion for animals and for art. I decided then that I would try to extend this research with chimpanzees and we did a number of other experiments with them. When I say experiments, I mean these were... I built a coconut shy, scaled down to take grapes so that the chimpanzee had to aim at these grapes as if they were coconuts in a coconut shy. And I was doing this because there was some debate about whether chimpanzees had good aiming ability because aiming ability was something which early human hunters had to have par excellence. It was very important in the history of our species that accurate aiming took place. And I wanted to see how... and a chimpanzee was able to knock a grape off with a... with a ball swinging on a chain. And we have it all on film and so you could... again, not only could you see the first germ of aesthetic behaviour in the chimpanzee, but you could also see the first signs of aiming behaviour.

ttracting more than 25 artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and across the world, combining different art genres such as painting, sculpture, photography and other multimedia art forms - visitors are in for a treat.

Congo’s Recycled Art Centre Keeps Women off the Street

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such as soda bottles to create elaborate sculptures and other decorative pieces with the cheapest item selling for not less than 200 dollars. CCTV's MariaGalang reports

CONGO ART WORKS: PEINTURE CONTEMPORAIN (populaire) DE LA RDC

Mtre.ANGE KUMBI ,CHIRI BENGA, BARLY, presant au VERNISSAGE.

6:17

Congo Mural

Congo Mural

Congo Mural

Sarah Clark and myself visited the Congo,Lubumbashi in September 2017. We were commissioned to paint an enormous dome. This mural took us 5 and a half weeks to complete. It was an experience i can only struggle to describe. So i created this video to share the experience with everyone else!
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5:59

Mangbetu Tribe In Congo, 1950 - Film 34929

Mangbetu Tribe In Congo, 1950 - Film 34929

Mangbetu Tribe In Congo, 1950 - Film 34929

Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Map of Africa with arrow indicating the location of the Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Film shows village life for the tribe. Group of thatched huts in a jungle clearing. Food preparation. Children in grass skirts collect yams or some other form of tuber for eating. Plantain and tubers are prepared for eating, pot boils on open fire and woman crushes vegetables with a large pestle and mortar. A chicken is released from its coop. Man cuts a bamboo pole in the jungle. Two men talk beside one of the huts and shake hands. Carving of a figurine. Women draw a stencil on the side of a hut while others prepare pigments or dyes for painting. The side of the hut is painted in a geometric pattern. Older man shows a young boy how to make a musical instruments, he carves in wood or bone and covers part of the instrument by sewing skin or cloth. Film ends with young boy playing his musical instrument while other boys dance around him in a circle.

Surrealist Art

Congo Art

The art scene in the Democratic Republic of Congo is vibrant and flourishing, but talented local artists still struggle for international recognition. VOA's AnitaPowell takes us to the studios of some of Kinshasa’s top talents, including 25-year-old art sensation Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga.

published: 11 Apr 2018

Congo Art Works. Popular Painting

The Critically Acclaimed Artist Who Turned Out to Be a Chimpanzee

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published: 25 Dec 2015

"Pistolets de Peinture pour les Nuls" by CONGO PAINT

DR Congo Art: Village in DR Congo becomes tourist attraction

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published: 01 Jul 2017

African Art: The Congo

published: 21 Apr 2017

Desmond Morris - Congo the artistic chimpanzee (17/37)

Born in the UK in 1928, Desmond Morris is a zoologist, writer and artist. Having created and presented programmes for TV on animal behaviour, he has gone on to write a series of books on the same topic beginning with the best-seller, ‘The Naked Ape’. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And this chimpanzee – he was called Congo – Congo's paintings were extraordinary because he did control them visually. He got no reward for them. If I tried to stop him in the middle of painting, he would scream and have a temper tantrum. If I tried to get him to go on after he'd finished a painting, he wouldn't. The lines were placed exactly where he wanted them on the page and he would have a basic quality of the artist which is thematic variation. He would develop a theme, like a fan pattern, and t...

ttracting more than 25 artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and across the world, combining different art genres such as painting, sculpture, photography and other multimedia art forms - visitors are in for a treat.

Congo’s Recycled Art Centre Keeps Women off the Street

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such as soda bottles to create elaborate sculptures and other decorative pieces with the cheapest item selling for not less than 200 dollars. CCTV's MariaGalang reports

CONGO ART WORKS: PEINTURE CONTEMPORAIN (populaire) DE LA RDC

Mtre.ANGE KUMBI ,CHIRI BENGA, BARLY, presant au VERNISSAGE.

published: 28 Oct 2016

Congo Mural

Sarah Clark and myself visited the Congo,Lubumbashi in September 2017. We were commissioned to paint an enormous dome. This mural took us 5 and a half weeks to complete. It was an experience i can only struggle to describe. So i created this video to share the experience with everyone else!
Share this video and comment below!
Instagram @rach.collection
Facebook @rachLTD
Email jesseglad1@gmail.com

published: 26 Dec 2017

Mangbetu Tribe In Congo, 1950 - Film 34929

Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Map of Africa with arrow indicating the location of the Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Film shows village life for the tribe. Group of thatched huts in a jungle clearing. Food preparation. Children in grass skirts collect yams or some other form of tuber for eating. Plantain and tubers are prepared for eating, pot boils on open fire and woman crushes vegetables with a large pestle and mortar. A chicken is released from its coop. Man cuts a bamboo pole in the jungle. Two men talk beside one of the huts and shake hands. Carving of a figurine. Women draw a stencil on the side of a hut while others prepare pigments or dyes for painting. The side of the hut is painted in a geometric pattern. Older man shows a young boy how to make a musical instruments, he carves in w...

The art scene in the Democratic Republic of Congo is vibrant and flourishing, but talented local artists still struggle for international recognition. VOA's AnitaPowell takes us to the studios of some of Kinshasa’s top talents, including 25-year-old art sensation Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga.

The art scene in the Democratic Republic of Congo is vibrant and flourishing, but talented local artists still struggle for international recognition. VOA's AnitaPowell takes us to the studios of some of Kinshasa’s top talents, including 25-year-old art sensation Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga.

The Critically Acclaimed Artist Who Turned Out to Be a Chimpanzee

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In 1964, a new avant-garde artist was introduced to the art scene in the Swedish city of Gōteborg. The fresh new artist was Pierre Brassau and his work received rave reviews from critics and art fans alike.
Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/03/the-monkey-artist-hoax/
Sources:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/20/entertainment/main703057.shtml
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/12/05/monkey_makes_warhollike_paintings_art_collectors_go_bananas.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870835,00.html
http://ecclesiastes911.net/story/pierre_brassau.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar

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In 1964, a new avant-garde artist was introduced to the art scene in the Swedish city of Gōteborg. The fresh new artist was Pierre Brassau and his work received rave reviews from critics and art fans alike.
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Sources:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/20/entertainment/main703057.shtml
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2011/12/05/monkey_makes_warhollike_paintings_art_collectors_go_bananas.html
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870835,00.html
http://ecclesiastes911.net/story/pierre_brassau.html
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/pierre_brassau_monkey_artist/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar

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Born in the UK in 1928, Desmond Morris is a zoologist, writer and artist. Having created and presented programmes for TV on animal behaviour, he has gone on to write a series of books on the same topic beginning with the best-seller, ‘The Naked Ape’. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And this chimpanzee – he was called Congo – Congo's paintings were extraordinary because he did control them visually. He got no reward for them. If I tried to stop him in the middle of painting, he would scream and have a temper tantrum. If I tried to get him to go on after he'd finished a painting, he wouldn't. The lines were placed exactly where he wanted them on the page and he would have a basic quality of the artist which is thematic variation. He would develop a theme, like a fan pattern, and then he would vary it. He'd make this fan pattern and then he would split it in two and put a spot in the middle, or he'd make a little subsidiary fan to one side. And he was playing with abstract patterns and doing it for no reward at all other than the excitement of exploring visual patterns.
And I remember saying to somebody, 'They've called Lascaux the birth of art. Lascaux isn't the birth of art – it's the adolescence – this is the birth of art, this is the beginning of aesthetic expression. They may only be abstract patterns but they are visually controlled and varied'. And he did about 300 or 400 of these pictures. And eventually there was an exhibition of them at the ICA in London and people were surprised. Oh, of course the press had a field day with it, made jokes about it at the expense of modern art, which made me very cross, but the serious artists realised what was going on.
And Picasso had one of these Congo paintings, and when a journalist came in and rather sneeringly said, 'Oh, what do you think of this picture by this chimpanzee then?' Picasso bit him. Which I thought was a wonderful way of saying, the chimpanzee and I have something in common. And Picasso was very impressed. So was Salvador Dali. Dali said, 'The hand of the chimpanzee is quasi-human; the hand of Jackson Pollock is totally animal', which was a wonderful quote from Dali. And Miró – who I had that show with earlier on – Miró came to see me and said, 'I want one of Congo's paintings'. And so I gave him one – I had only a few left by this time – I gave him one and he was so pleased that he did a Miró in exchange for me. He sat down and did a Miró which is what a schoolboy would call a good swop.
So that was my Congo experiment and it led to a book called 'The Biology of Art' which was my first serious book. And it fascinated me because it brought together my two passions: passion for animals and for art. I decided then that I would try to extend this research with chimpanzees and we did a number of other experiments with them. When I say experiments, I mean these were... I built a coconut shy, scaled down to take grapes so that the chimpanzee had to aim at these grapes as if they were coconuts in a coconut shy. And I was doing this because there was some debate about whether chimpanzees had good aiming ability because aiming ability was something which early human hunters had to have par excellence. It was very important in the history of our species that accurate aiming took place. And I wanted to see how... and a chimpanzee was able to knock a grape off with a... with a ball swinging on a chain. And we have it all on film and so you could... again, not only could you see the first germ of aesthetic behaviour in the chimpanzee, but you could also see the first signs of aiming behaviour.

Born in the UK in 1928, Desmond Morris is a zoologist, writer and artist. Having created and presented programmes for TV on animal behaviour, he has gone on to write a series of books on the same topic beginning with the best-seller, ‘The Naked Ape’. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And this chimpanzee – he was called Congo – Congo's paintings were extraordinary because he did control them visually. He got no reward for them. If I tried to stop him in the middle of painting, he would scream and have a temper tantrum. If I tried to get him to go on after he'd finished a painting, he wouldn't. The lines were placed exactly where he wanted them on the page and he would have a basic quality of the artist which is thematic variation. He would develop a theme, like a fan pattern, and then he would vary it. He'd make this fan pattern and then he would split it in two and put a spot in the middle, or he'd make a little subsidiary fan to one side. And he was playing with abstract patterns and doing it for no reward at all other than the excitement of exploring visual patterns.
And I remember saying to somebody, 'They've called Lascaux the birth of art. Lascaux isn't the birth of art – it's the adolescence – this is the birth of art, this is the beginning of aesthetic expression. They may only be abstract patterns but they are visually controlled and varied'. And he did about 300 or 400 of these pictures. And eventually there was an exhibition of them at the ICA in London and people were surprised. Oh, of course the press had a field day with it, made jokes about it at the expense of modern art, which made me very cross, but the serious artists realised what was going on.
And Picasso had one of these Congo paintings, and when a journalist came in and rather sneeringly said, 'Oh, what do you think of this picture by this chimpanzee then?' Picasso bit him. Which I thought was a wonderful way of saying, the chimpanzee and I have something in common. And Picasso was very impressed. So was Salvador Dali. Dali said, 'The hand of the chimpanzee is quasi-human; the hand of Jackson Pollock is totally animal', which was a wonderful quote from Dali. And Miró – who I had that show with earlier on – Miró came to see me and said, 'I want one of Congo's paintings'. And so I gave him one – I had only a few left by this time – I gave him one and he was so pleased that he did a Miró in exchange for me. He sat down and did a Miró which is what a schoolboy would call a good swop.
So that was my Congo experiment and it led to a book called 'The Biology of Art' which was my first serious book. And it fascinated me because it brought together my two passions: passion for animals and for art. I decided then that I would try to extend this research with chimpanzees and we did a number of other experiments with them. When I say experiments, I mean these were... I built a coconut shy, scaled down to take grapes so that the chimpanzee had to aim at these grapes as if they were coconuts in a coconut shy. And I was doing this because there was some debate about whether chimpanzees had good aiming ability because aiming ability was something which early human hunters had to have par excellence. It was very important in the history of our species that accurate aiming took place. And I wanted to see how... and a chimpanzee was able to knock a grape off with a... with a ball swinging on a chain. And we have it all on film and so you could... again, not only could you see the first germ of aesthetic behaviour in the chimpanzee, but you could also see the first signs of aiming behaviour.

ttracting more than 25 artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and across the world, combining different art genres such as painting, sculpture, photography and other multimedia art forms - visitors are in for a treat.

ttracting more than 25 artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and across the world, combining different art genres such as painting, sculpture, photography and other multimedia art forms - visitors are in for a treat.

Congo’s Recycled Art Centre Keeps Women off the Street

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such...

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such as soda bottles to create elaborate sculptures and other decorative pieces with the cheapest item selling for not less than 200 dollars. CCTV's MariaGalang reports

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such as soda bottles to create elaborate sculptures and other decorative pieces with the cheapest item selling for not less than 200 dollars. CCTV's MariaGalang reports

Sarah Clark and myself visited the Congo,Lubumbashi in September 2017. We were commissioned to paint an enormous dome. This mural took us 5 and a half weeks to complete. It was an experience i can only struggle to describe. So i created this video to share the experience with everyone else!
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Sarah Clark and myself visited the Congo,Lubumbashi in September 2017. We were commissioned to paint an enormous dome. This mural took us 5 and a half weeks to complete. It was an experience i can only struggle to describe. So i created this video to share the experience with everyone else!
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Email jesseglad1@gmail.com

Mangbetu Tribe In Congo, 1950 - Film 34929

Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Map of Africa with arrow indicating the location of the Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Film shows village life for the tribe. Group o...

Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Map of Africa with arrow indicating the location of the Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Film shows village life for the tribe. Group of thatched huts in a jungle clearing. Food preparation. Children in grass skirts collect yams or some other form of tuber for eating. Plantain and tubers are prepared for eating, pot boils on open fire and woman crushes vegetables with a large pestle and mortar. A chicken is released from its coop. Man cuts a bamboo pole in the jungle. Two men talk beside one of the huts and shake hands. Carving of a figurine. Women draw a stencil on the side of a hut while others prepare pigments or dyes for painting. The side of the hut is painted in a geometric pattern. Older man shows a young boy how to make a musical instruments, he carves in wood or bone and covers part of the instrument by sewing skin or cloth. Film ends with young boy playing his musical instrument while other boys dance around him in a circle.

Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Map of Africa with arrow indicating the location of the Mangbetu tribe in the Congo. Film shows village life for the tribe. Group of thatched huts in a jungle clearing. Food preparation. Children in grass skirts collect yams or some other form of tuber for eating. Plantain and tubers are prepared for eating, pot boils on open fire and woman crushes vegetables with a large pestle and mortar. A chicken is released from its coop. Man cuts a bamboo pole in the jungle. Two men talk beside one of the huts and shake hands. Carving of a figurine. Women draw a stencil on the side of a hut while others prepare pigments or dyes for painting. The side of the hut is painted in a geometric pattern. Older man shows a young boy how to make a musical instruments, he carves in wood or bone and covers part of the instrument by sewing skin or cloth. Film ends with young boy playing his musical instrument while other boys dance around him in a circle.

Congo Art

The art scene in the Democratic Republic of Congo is vibrant and flourishing, but talented local artists still struggle for international recognition. VOA's AnitaPowell takes us to the studios of some of Kinshasa’s top talents, including 25-year-old art sensation Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga.

The Critically Acclaimed Artist Who Turned Out to Be a Chimpanzee

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Desmond Morris - Congo the artistic chimpanzee (17/37)

Born in the UK in 1928, Desmond Morris is a zoologist, writer and artist. Having created and presented programmes for TV on animal behaviour, he has gone on to write a series of books on the same topic beginning with the best-seller, ‘The Naked Ape’. [Listener: Christopher Sykes]
TRANSCRIPT: And this chimpanzee – he was called Congo – Congo's paintings were extraordinary because he did control them visually. He got no reward for them. If I tried to stop him in the middle of painting, he would scream and have a temper tantrum. If I tried to get him to go on after he'd finished a painting, he wouldn't. The lines were placed exactly where he wanted them on the page and he would have a basic quality of the artist which is thematic variation. He would develop a theme, like a fan pattern, and then he would vary it. He'd make this fan pattern and then he would split it in two and put a spot in the middle, or he'd make a little subsidiary fan to one side. And he was playing with abstract patterns and doing it for no reward at all other than the excitement of exploring visual patterns.
And I remember saying to somebody, 'They've called Lascaux the birth of art. Lascaux isn't the birth of art – it's the adolescence – this is the birth of art, this is the beginning of aesthetic expression. They may only be abstract patterns but they are visually controlled and varied'. And he did about 300 or 400 of these pictures. And eventually there was an exhibition of them at the ICA in London and people were surprised. Oh, of course the press had a field day with it, made jokes about it at the expense of modern art, which made me very cross, but the serious artists realised what was going on.
And Picasso had one of these Congo paintings, and when a journalist came in and rather sneeringly said, 'Oh, what do you think of this picture by this chimpanzee then?' Picasso bit him. Which I thought was a wonderful way of saying, the chimpanzee and I have something in common. And Picasso was very impressed. So was Salvador Dali. Dali said, 'The hand of the chimpanzee is quasi-human; the hand of Jackson Pollock is totally animal', which was a wonderful quote from Dali. And Miró – who I had that show with earlier on – Miró came to see me and said, 'I want one of Congo's paintings'. And so I gave him one – I had only a few left by this time – I gave him one and he was so pleased that he did a Miró in exchange for me. He sat down and did a Miró which is what a schoolboy would call a good swop.
So that was my Congo experiment and it led to a book called 'The Biology of Art' which was my first serious book. And it fascinated me because it brought together my two passions: passion for animals and for art. I decided then that I would try to extend this research with chimpanzees and we did a number of other experiments with them. When I say experiments, I mean these were... I built a coconut shy, scaled down to take grapes so that the chimpanzee had to aim at these grapes as if they were coconuts in a coconut shy. And I was doing this because there was some debate about whether chimpanzees had good aiming ability because aiming ability was something which early human hunters had to have par excellence. It was very important in the history of our species that accurate aiming took place. And I wanted to see how... and a chimpanzee was able to knock a grape off with a... with a ball swinging on a chain. And we have it all on film and so you could... again, not only could you see the first germ of aesthetic behaviour in the chimpanzee, but you could also see the first signs of aiming behaviour.

ttracting more than 25 artists from the Democratic Republic of Congo and across the world, combining different art genres such as painting, sculpture, photography and other multimedia art forms - visitors are in for a treat.

Congo’s Recycled Art Centre Keeps Women off the Street

Women inCongo's capital Brazzaville are making a living using recycled materials, which they turn into works of art for sale. They use discarded materials such as soda bottles to create elaborate sculptures and other decorative pieces with the cheapest item selling for not less than 200 dollars. CCTV's MariaGalang reports

Congo Mural

Sarah Clark and myself visited the Congo,Lubumbashi in September 2017. We were commissioned to paint an enormous dome. This mural took us 5 and a half weeks to complete. It was an experience i can only struggle to describe. So i created this video to share the experience with everyone else!
Share this video and comment below!
Instagram @rach.collection
Facebook @rachLTD
Email jesseglad1@gmail.com